M.E.H.Nicolette Mout, Professor of Modern History (since 1994) and Professor of Central European Studies (Special endowed chair, since 1990), Leiden University, the Netherlands.
1945: born Wassenaar (the Netherlands); 1963-1968; study of history, University of Amsterdam; 1966-1969: research scholarships in Czechoslovakia and Austria; 1975: Ph.D. Leiden University; 1975-1976: Lecturer of Modern history, University of Utrecht; 1976-1994: Lecturer, later Reader of Dutch history, University of Leiden, since 1990 in combination with a special endowed chair of Central European Studies.
Since 1988: Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; since 1994: Foreign Member of the Austrian Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Publications on Dutch and Central European history, mainly, but not exclusively, on the early modern period.